Waging Peace

Peace Action New Mexico
Peace Action is committed to abolishing nuclear weapons and all weapons
of mass destruction, redirecting excessive military expenditures to domestic
investment, ending global weapons trafficking, preventing the erosion of
civil liberties both in this country and elsewhere, preventing the militarization
of space, and fostering non-military solutions to international conflicts.
We are grassroots, member-supported not-for-profit organization whose volunteers
and dedicated staff work at local, state, national, and international levels.

NO RUSH TO WAR!
Recent events have confirmed that the American political establishment is not united in support of the Bush Administration's policy of forcible "regime change" in Iraq. The rest of the world, and a good part of the American public, also seem unconvinced of the necessity of an attack.

Military Opt Out Form For Students
For students who do NOT want their high schools to provide the US Military with their birth date, address, social security number for recruitment purposes, please print out the form and deliver it to your principal. Getting a signed receipt of acceptance is also a good idea.

Los Alamos Study Group
The Los Alamos Study Group seeks nuclear disarmament, environmental protection and enhancement, social justice, and economic sustainability Ð goals which are closely interrelated, mutually reinforcing, and essential to one another. These goals are very widely supported in American society and we construe them as essentially conservative, however revolutionary they would be in actual practice.

We aim not only to change public policy but also to prevent the implementation of bad policies. The latter is often easier to achieve; it comprises de facto policy change and often leads to de jure change.

The central ideal in these four goals can be stated approximately as respect for the human person in the living landscape. Such an ideal is as intellectually, morally, economically, and politically incompatible with nuclear weapons as it is necessary for economic, social, and spiritual renewal in this state and nationally.

World Issues - A Short List
Wage Peace to assist peoples of our local community, country and the world in achieving a sustainable life, as well as making all our lives safe and free. Live simply so that others may simply live!

Join Granny D
Doris "Granny D" Haddock, 93, is the chairwoman of the "Our Town Votes" project. She walked across the U.S. in 2000 to support cleaner campaigns with fewer strings attached to special interests.

A Young PeaceMaker
Marla Ruzicka is an advocate who began a door-to-door survey of civilian casualties in Iraq the day after Saddam's statue fell. She founded the non-profit organization, CIVIC, Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict, and formed survey teams to fan-out across the country and gather first-hand accounts of civilian casualties.
CIVIC is a small organization working to obtain U.S. Government assistance for communities and families in need, while helping to shine a spotlight on the human costs of war.
The humanitarian situation in Iraq remains serious. CIVIC seeks to mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is provided to those in need. We have kept the stories of families harmed in both Iraq and Afghanistan on the agenda both on the ground and in the halls of Congress. In the short time we have been operating, we have succeeded in putting laws in place that will assist those we identified in our field survey work.

MISSION- The Department shall--
(1) hold peace as an organizing principle, coordinating service to every level of American society;
(2) endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights;
(3) strengthen nonmilitary means of peacemaking;
(4) promote the development of human potential;
(5) work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict, use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in nonviolent dispute resolution;
(6) take a proactive, strategic approach in the development of policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict;
(7) address matters both domestic and international in scope; and
(8) encourage the development of initiatives from local communities, religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations.

This legislation has been introduced into the House of Representatives by Dennis Kucinich

Mobilize for Global Justice
On April 20, anti-war activists, workers, trade unionists,
communities of color, women, lesbian, gay, bi and trans
communities, communities of faith, and others will take to
the streets of Washington DC to say that Bush cannot speak
in our name as his administration carries out the
anti-people, pro-corporate, militarist agenda.

Luke Powell Photographs
"Color photographs from Afghanistan, Palestine, Egypt, Ladakh, Ceylon,
Iran, and Vermont are mounted here with text material, a technical photography section, and a list of print exhibitions. Now we have two new photo essays on Afghanistan in the year 2000. I would like to thank
Middlebury College for for hosting this site. All opinions expressed here,
however, are mine alone. Luke Powell "

American Friends Service Organization The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service,

Y & M Magazine
The AFSC National Youth and Militarism Program addresses the impact of war and military institutions on young people's lives. We conduct public education campaigns, trainings and workshops, do media outreach and communications work, and support grassroots educational and organizing efforts.

Radio For Peace Action
Radio For Peace International (RFPI) serves as the
global messenger of peace and hope to the farthest
reaches of the earth. The ultimate goal of RFPI is to
create peace in hearts, homes, communities, and all
nations of the world.

Rockets Red Glare

Mapping a nuclear blast - Would you survive a nuclear blast? Enter any location within the U.S. and get a map of a hydrogen bomb's "zones of destruction". From American Experience, a sub-category for PBS.

The Nuclear Resister
- Information about and support for imprisoned anti-nuclear and anti-war activists.

Arms Trade Resource Center A world policy institute run by Bill Hartung, with Frida Berrigan
and Michelle Ciarrocca at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Clicking on their reports takes you to a treasure chest of important
information.

Working Assets
Working Assets makes it easy for busy people to support causes they care about. Through our credit card and long distance services customers can generate donations for progressive nonprofit groups just by doing what they do every day. Best of all, it does not cost a penny more.

Working For Change
How a long distance phone carrier is working for social change in the United States and the world.

Peace Jam
. The goal of PeaceJam is to inspire a new generation of peacemakers who will transform their local communities, themselves and the world.

Conflict Resolution
The Conflict Resolution Information Source (CRInfo) is a cooperative
effort to strengthen the conflict field's information infrastructure, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.